1 June 2012

The 100 day challenge...

Yup, you read right. Me, miss I can never stop spending money, is going to be doing the 100 day challenge. As of today, June 1st, I am now doing the challenge, which will end on September 8th. 100 days. Three months and one week. A long, long time. The 100 day challenge has been done by a few bloggers and the place I first heard about it was Danielle who runs A Blog From Blackpool.

To be able to complete this challenge, I need to cater it to fit my needs. So here are my rules.

I am not allowed to buy any cosmetics, beauty, bath or body products; this includes everything. And I mean even when the newest must have product comes out, I am not allowed to give in to temptation. Thankfully I have more than enough of everything to keep me going.

I am not allowed to buy any magazines, DVDs, or books.

I am not allowed to buy any clothes; excluded from this is underwear and tights, if I need them. But only if I need them.

I am not allowed to order take away nor buy food unless I am out and there is no other option. Same for drinks. I am only allowed to eat out once a month, if it is a meal with friends.

So those are my rules. This is what I hope will make the challenge do-able for me.

I decided to do this challenge because I am unemployed and a full time student. I have to rely on my student loan to live on and over the past couple of months I have exceptionally over spent. To the point where I have very little left to last me until October.

I also wanted to do it because to my partner and friends, I am known for my over spending. I can't just go out and buy one thing, I have to get bags full. I seem to have completely lost any management over my money and it is becoming scary. I want to be able to show not only other people, but myself, that I can go without spending, that I don't need to go shopping every week.

I am not doing this challenge alone, my best friend Hayley, who runs Wife Life Beauty will also be doing the challenge with me. As my shopping partner in crime, we're going to have to really help each other out to make sure we don't slip up!

I know I can do this, and I know I will be able to look back at the end of the challenge and feel proud of myself for completing it!

So what about after the challenge? Well I have decided that if I succeed, I will buy myself a new set of GHD's. The ones I have now I have had for 7 years, since I was 18. So for me it'll be a nice treat and a much needed upgrade! As well as this in October me and Hayley are going to go on a celebratory shopping trip to London together!

As well as this, after much talking to the lovely Lauren who runs The Beauty Habit, we are in the midst of planning a little London trip in October when my new Uni term starts. Food and shopping, just another thing for me to look forward to at the end of this challenge!

I will be doing a weekly blog post to update on my progress throughout the challenge, as well as creating a wishlist on the blog for me to keep track of things I've seen and want. I wonder how many of them I will still want by the end of it?

Support is appreciated, and if anyone would like to join in and take part please let me know!

Good luck gorgeous. You are starting it for the same resons that I did, being a student and being out of control with spending you are not alone. It sucks. You will find it hard and you might slip up but just think of how proud you will feel when it's all done xx

this is very ambitious and I wish you the best of luck! it sounds like you have very good reasons for this 100 day challenge, so whenever you feel the urge to 'cheat', just re-read this post and hopefully it'll keep you on track!

Best of luck! While it will definitely will be hard I can't imagine giving up purchasing book! I guess there is always the public library! You should also include apps for all those smart phone users ha (;

I really appreciate what you're doing. I have a job and a salary, but I'm only 21 years old girl living by herself so my salary is never good enough to support me in a big city like São Paulo... So I understand very well the feeling of spending money in makeup and stuffs like crazy and after that realize that life is not that easy and money doesn't fall over our head like rain.Keep stronger, girl! I trust in you :DYou have a beautiful blog. I started mine a few days ago and I hope one day I can get the same level as yours.

Wow. I'm very impressed. I'm not sure I could do this, I have stopped buying as much as I used to, I spent three days debating buying a Clarisonic and managed to restrain myself. Good luck with this challenge! Lauren xx

I'm going to start this the 1st of september. That would mean I am finished around Christmas (if my maths are right ;)) which would make me able to go Christmas shopping. Starting the 1st of August would torture me bc I go to Italy for the first time & I would have a hard time not buying anything! Haha, good luck! :D

I'm going to do this starting from tomorrow, but I'm going to slightly change it, as in I will not buy anything I don't need, eg ANY makeup, (I have way too much!), clothes I don't need, or any other unnecessary things, and I'll be doing 1 blog post everyday for 100 days! I'd love you to follow me and check it out as I do it!:)xxx

I have decided to start this too! I am so bad with money and my parents are getting sick of it and saying they don't know what I am going to do when I move out, I constantly have no money & buy so much makeup that I will never be able to get through! Thanks for the inspiration! xx

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